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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: KDevelop 3.0 released - was Ada popularity
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On 2004-02-12, Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
> chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>: 
>: Agreed.  Also the easiest way to install debian is via Knoppix!  This 
>: has fab hardware support and the knx-hdinstall script makes it a breeze. 
>
> I don't want to stop you but in general Knoppix is 
> a useful system to carry around on a CD, and it says so.

Yes. If one is scared of Debian there are other Debian based
distributions out there.

See: 

   http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros

These two have gotten good reviews:

   http://www.mepis.org/
   http://www.xandros.net/

> If you have standard hardware, use Debian testing or better, stable,
> and compile the few new things you need, like compilers.

No no no no no no! Do NOT mix self-compiled gcc with the Debian package
system. Rather install from unstable.

At any rate compiling the kernel is easy.

-- 
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